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nokinok t1_j9s5uy9 wrote

The headline doesn’t point out that stops and summons are roughly proportional to population demographics. It just highlights the searches and arrests.

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dust1990 t1_j9tssqm wrote

This is the real headline and is encouraging. It shows police aren’t stopping people because of their race.

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NatLawson t1_j9vtank wrote

Or .. or. I could be you are mindless in your unbelievable self deception. This country subscribes to institutional racism as enshrined in our constitution.

Until Americans repudiate institutional racism, constituionally constructed racism, religiously endowed and supported racism - there is no solution. Image, your car, confiscated on the whim of a institutional enforcement strategy?

Racism is wrong and illegal and immoral. It is also wrong to be dismissive about complaints from voters snd taxpayers about the behavior of police.

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stork38 t1_j9w68wb wrote

Put away the Kendi book

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NatLawson t1_j9wbti8 wrote

We have a lot of truth to get to. We are American taxpayers. Nothing more, nothing less. Simpletons should not determine the future of our tax dollars. Simpletons should not foster violence and destruction. Is that what you want? Hope, not fear is guidance for the future. Be glad the world agrees.

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jeffsayno t1_j9u0sb7 wrote

but they are searching them because of it

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dust1990 t1_j9uci0j wrote

Correlation is not causation.

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jeffsayno t1_j9uwt9x wrote

You're saying blacks and latinos are more likely to give them a reason to search?

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dust1990 t1_j9v1zjw wrote

They need reasonable suspicion (or consent) for a Terry stop & frisk. So in answer to your question, yes, it appears individuals with those classifications did give them more reason to search.

You could argue their suspicion wasn't reasonable or they illegally used race as a factor. But this data alone doesn't support that argument.

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NatLawson t1_j9vs5og wrote

Or ... or it could be you have a sign "Dorkenstein" or your forehead? The police say, "he's got enough troubles of his own." Let's skip him.

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tdoubles23 t1_j9uji6n wrote

Did you read the article? And in what world do you think 90%+ of drivers in NYC are Black or Hispanic?

Quote from article "While most stops only resulted in a summons for a minor violation, officers searched and arrested Black and Latino drivers at far higher rates than white drivers, according to data obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union and shared with Gothamist."

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